Free Trial : Battleground Europe [WWII Online]

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Hello, thought i may share this with everyone. There is a free trial available for this "mmofps/sim". No credit card required. The game has been released in 2001 and still going.

The game is a mix of fps and simulation (you can fly warbirds, drive tanks even ships such as destroyer and the like all of that in a multicrew setup if you wish with other players. It is set in 1940 at the start of world war two, there is the BEF, France and Germany for now. Each side as production plan going on for every campagain where they can research new weapons, vehicles ect. Of course you can cripple your enemy production by bombing their facilites, well you get the pictures.

ENVIRONMENT
- First Person Point of View in all units
- Advanced Combat Simulation with Combined arms action (Air, Sea, Ground)
- Over 600 Cities and Towns to fight for, in block by block combat through over 29,000 Buildings
- Huge zoneless map of Europe covering over 350,000 kilometers with over 4,000,000 3D trees
- Over 200 Bridges that can be destroyed and repaired
- Line of Sight over 6km
- Thousands of players fighting 24/7

WEAPONS
- Over 80 different vehicles and weapons available (including land air and sea types)
- Multicrew feature allows more than one player to play in the same vehicle
- Realistic Ballistics for all weapons

STRATEGY
- Factory production sets spawnable units in the field
- Airfields host deployed fighter or bomber units
- Deep Water Ports host deployed naval flotillas
- Supply management
- Production Management
- Technologies Research Management
- Brigade Deployment
- Attack Objectives
- Defense Objectives
- Re-supply
- Cut enemy supply
- Blow and Repair Bridges
- Strategic Map
- Early Warning Air Attack System

COMMUNICATIONS
- Area Chat (Whisper, Normal, Shout)
- Enemy communications delivered as garbled translations
- Community Chat (French/Spanish/German etc...)
- High Command Chat
- Brigade Chat
- Private Messaging
- Squad Chat (Talk with your buddies)

RPG
- Multiple careers in 3 Different Armies(Air/Sea/Ground)
- Personal combat stats and records(Kills/Ratio/Death/Best Units and personal diary)
- Rank promotion with gameplay success
- Promotion to Command positions possible with tactical success
- Gazette Online newspaper(English Only)
- Campaign Stats
- Global Stats
- Join a virtual unit with your personal
- Get Missions and Orders by the High Command
- Lead your men and become an officer

COMMUNITIES
- Weekly newsletter
- Dev News/Log
- Development Screenshots
- Replies to Players questions
- Polls
- Community sites "HQ" (French, German, Italian, Spanish etc...)
- Technical Support Forum(French/English)
- Customer Support Forum (French/English)
- HQ Managers forum
- Dev team interaction via the HQs or Forum(French/English)

MORE
- Intermission between campaigns with Free Events
- Frequent updates adding gameplay enhancements and new content to the game
- Paid subscription required ($14.99/mo as low as $8.33/mo with prepay)
- Multiple payment methods(Credit Card, check, wire etc...)
- 1/3/6/12 Months subscriptions available

The client is only ~400mb, the map you play on is HUGE, we are not talking about maps on Battlefield 2 but a virtual half size europe. You do not need a credit card for the free trial it is 100% free.

How to : www.battleground-europe.com click on "getting started" and follow the instruction.

Hope you like it Note, if you are into arcadish style of fps this wont be for you but if you are into real sim this is a blast.